DBMS > Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.intersystems.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Firebird Foundation

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1997

2019

2014

2003

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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